College Hills-area home gutted by fire

San Angelo firefighters hydrated after fighting a two-alarm fire Wednesday night at a house on Oak Forest Drive.

Standard-Times photo by Patrick Dove

A San Angelo firefighter continues to spray water on a house on Oak Forest Drive.

Standard-Times photo by Patrick Dove

Two San Angelo firefighters spray water on the garage of a home on Oak Forest Drive. Buck Buchanan, 85, fell asleep while cooking dinner and woke up to the sound of the smoke alarm.

Standard-Times photo by Patrick Dove

San Angelo firefighters responded to a two-alarm house fire on Oak Forest Drive Wednesday night. The house was gutted by the fire and the only occupant manage to escape.

Standard-Times photo by Patrick Dove

San Angelo firefighters soak the garage of a house on Oak Forest Drive. Firefighters responded to the blaze around 9:00 p.m. Wednesday.

Standard-Times photo by Patrick Dove

San Angelo firefighters battled a fire Wednesday night that gutted a home in the College Hills neighborhood.

Buck Buchanan, 85, was in the home in the 3100 block of Oak Forest Drive when the fire started and told fire battalion chief Royce Owen he fell asleep while he was boiling eggs for dinner and was woken by a smoke alarm. Buchanan was able to rescue one of his vehicles by moving it next door, but another under the carport was damaged in the fire. He said he was insured.

Four fire trucks, a ladder truck and a rescue vehicle responded to the call after 9 p.m. The resident refused medical treatment.